Hey Helmar Followers!
I'm going to show you an easy tutorial today featuring my favourite Helmar product (by default because it's the one I grab the most!) which is Helmar's Premium Craft Glue! Sometimes I have a small spot of time and this glue works perfect for me because it dries super fast! Here's a photo of what I will be making:
I also find that I will make a lot of big projects and get a lot of left-over bits of paper so that is why I am using some of them today!
What you will need:
- Helmar Premium Craft Glue
- Helmar Liquid Scrap Dots
- Helmar Fray Stoppa
- Scrap papers.
- Cardstock.
- Embellishments (I have used some metal butterflies)
- Sentiment Stickers (or you could use a stamp)
- Stamps of your choice.
- Ink (I used ColourBox inks)
- Ribbon
- Rhinestones and Pearls
To make this first card, I already had left-over from an original Z-fold card. To make one of those you cut your white cardstock on a diagonal and fold it into quarters. To make my mini version of this, I used two rubber stamps; a music note and a triad of butterflies using purple and blue ink. I stamped them on randomly and then cut around the top of the card to give it shape. From here, I inked the edge of the card with the a lighter blue ink.
After this, I adhered some yellow ribbon with the Helmar Premium Craft Glue. I trimmed the excess and used Helmar Fray Stoppa to prevent fraying on the edges. I added 3 rhinestones. I also added a Thankyou sticker. By adding these two horizontal elements, it created more depth to my mini card.
For my second card, I cut some left-over cardstock to the size I wanted. Using another scrap piece of left-over floral background, I cut that paper to the size of my mini card. I adhered the floral background to the white cardstock with Helmar Premium Craft Glue. I added some purple ribbon with the glue as well. Because it dries so fast, I can keep building my project without worrying about it moving in the process. I trimmed the excess ribbon and used Fray Stoppa to prevent fraying (which is more prevalent with the satin ribbon).
To finish it off, I added a Thankyou sticker and pearls as well as a metal butterfly embellishment. I used Helmar Liquid Scrap Dots to help reinforce it and to provide dimension.
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